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Born in BC, grew up in Alberta, my "ou"s sound like "oa"s. About -> Aboat, Out -> Oat, couch/coach basically sound the same lol

I recently travelled for work to the US (air not ground), and I was able to opt-out of facial recognition. I'm sure that won't be an option forever, but if anyone has to travel in the short term and is concerned, you probably can opt-out.

Well in this riding yeah - my point is that in FPTP every vote matters in some ridings, but in many, it just doesn't

Not really though, I live in Red Deer. It'd take 3/4ths of the Conservative voters to sleep in (in addition to the ones who already did) for my vote to have made a difference.

In ridings where it's close-ish, you can still trigger trends that result in more spending on your riding, but when it's 80:20 your riding will always be ignored. FPTP sucks.

So if there's a tie, it triggers a byelection? How weird!

Carney has spoken a lot about using AI to lower the operating costs of government. I don't think the minister is there strictly to regulate.

I'd still lean more towards her being a useful idiot, because as mentioned she necessarily courts all these conspiracy theories to keep the UCP together. But yeah, whether via Russian influence or her own stupidity, she is hugely responsible for this.

Because we can apply economic pressure.

No one is being hurt by not being able to buy a cheap Chinese EV.

Russia is for sure sowing seeds of doubt across all sorts of movements to politically disrupt us, but the whole reason separation is being taken at all seriously rests entirely on Danielle Smith. She thinks that legitimizing their concerns means that the UCP will stay together because the entire party is built on the idea of sharing a tent with fringe crazies. She's also encouraging all the talk about it because it is distracting from the government's ongoing scandals.

They also seem to have a better climate change story than anyone in north america

They lied about covid numbers, so I don't really trust their pollution numbers either, but they make some kind of "one step forwards, two steps back" progress because they keep building new coal power plants.

and USA has totally shown itself to be a mercurial alley.

The US is absolutely a shithole now, I don't think we should look to them for EVs either.

I don't see what advantage high tariffs have on something we want more of (EV's). If the standards suck, then I'm ok with bringing them up to standard and charging for that. Making this an either or "they are or aren't our enemies" seems unnecessary, when we could buy their things and put pressure on them to do better on the things at the top.

So, Trump kind of ruined saying tariffs as a solution to anything, but they are a tool to apply pressure to trade partners. Huge tariffs on Chinese EVs isn't contributing to our cost of living crisis, because we can get EVs from elsewhere for decent prices, and because EVs are a super luxury item anyway.

There's no pressure applied if we buy their EVs at cost. We don't realistically have enough global political power to apply any political pressure either.

Tell that to the vast majority of ridings where it doesn't really matter :/

This is just something we copy from US. There's a need to befriend lesser enemies, though China has never threatened us.

Nonsense. They're an existential threat to good allies like Taiwan and Hong Kong, and support other threats including Russia and North Korea.

Edit: And if you need specific risks to Canada, don't forget the Chinese police stations, the 2 Michaels being detained, and interfering with our elections.